According to CBS, Michigan's win over VCU on Saturday was a 'perfect basketball game'. AP Photo

For a minute, even Spike looked like an All-Star.

That's how pretty Michigan's 78-53 win over Virginia Commonwealth was on Saturday afternoon in Auburn Hills. And almost instantly, people who had Michigan on upset alert were back to treating them like the No. 1 ranking they once held.

"I thought in essence they played a perfect basketball game," Greg Anthony said on the CBS post game show. "I thought coming in they had the three best players on the floor. Turns out they had the four best players because Mitch McGary was unbelievable.

The Wolverines shot 51.7 percent. They hit over 90 percent of their free throws. Four players scored in double figures. And Mitch McGary? Well he looked like he had played in the tournament for years. He looked like he'd been there before.

"He played a perfect game," Anthony said unabashedly. "Not because he had 21 points as a career high and the 14, but he set some monstrous screens in the game as well. That will make you tentative as well.

"And defensively is the area where Michigan has made the most improvement over the last month of the season. They are far more intense. They guard the basketball better. They are starting to rebound at a higher clip. So this is a team that is starting to look like they want to go on a longer run in this tournament."

Michigan - who struggled themselves from three-point range (6-20) - held VCU to an abysmal 18.8 percent (3-16) shooting from long range. The Rams entered the tournament ranked 11th in the country in scoring with an average of 78 points a game. They only put up 53 against the Wolverines.

"They did exactly what they were supposed to do," Former Tar Heel Kenny Smith added. "When Tim Hardaway Jr. got the basketball, he created basketball plays.That is why McGary was a beneficiary - he got the dunks. That is what VCU hopes that you can't do. They hope you can't handle the pressure. They hope that when you get into the lane that you turn the ball over or that you take a quick shot."